A project to irrigate 300,000 dunams of land in the Negev at an estimated cost of $53,000,000, using two main pipes from a huge water reservoir to be built near the Yarkon river, was made known here today in official circles. The plan is said to have been worked out by the U.N. Economic Survey Mission, headed by Gordon R. Clapp. The plan envisages a reservoir for the Yarkon and its subsidiaries, from which two pincipal pipelines would extend to the southern desert.
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